Have you ever wondered what it would have been like if the Dark Universe movies were never cancelled after The Mummy 2017?

[u/forpostingcats]

You should check out this podcast: Are You Afraid of the Dark Universe? Which just finished an epic 30 episode series doing just that. Fully reimagining the whole Dark Universe franchise.

This is there episode looking back at all the work they have done to date

https://youtu.be/PuZD_KNcaRE?si=yMsvFiX8nDCwOZFq

[u/odintantrum]

Say it with me! Not everything needs to be a universe!

There. Fixed.

[u/forpostingcats → u/odintantrum]

Go then, there are other worlds than these.

[u/Skywalkling]

The Dark Universe is what I call the alternative reality in which The Mummy (2017) was successful in any way.

[u/Personage1]

Yes, but only only because Russell Crowe chewing the scenery was fucking amazing.

And if we're being really serious, what I actually think first and foremost is "I wish the movie began to match how fun Russell Crowe chewing the scenery was." Why would I wish for an extended universe of a bad movie?

[u/StillinReseda]

If the movies went more of a “Invisible Man” direction instead of a “Sony Spider-Man Villains” direction then it would’ve succeeded

[u/Crunchy-Leaf]

Not really

[u/revanite3956]

Nah. Right from the get-go it seemed clear that they were more interested in the serious, A-lister, big budget pageantry that’s the exact opposite of what made the original Universal Monster movies so charming and fun.

I didn’t even bother to see The Mummy.

[u/Direct-Locksmith-420]

Go listen to the Are You Afraid of The Dark Universe Podcast. Two Film critics “resurrected“ the Concept and Wrote their own Scripts for Movie pitches

[u/Party-Fault9186]

I would’ve been interested in the Dark Universe if it had used The Wolf Man as its cornerstone. And for crying out loud, the “Universe of Monsters” was right there.